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  • Commented on Upcoming Appearances: Washington DC and Baltimore
    I'm thinking that after eating, on arrival, we should keep ourselves awake at Bier Baron. Has real ale, both cask and bottled, and few hundred inferior brews....
  • Commented on The unavoidable discussion
    I will never underestimate the ability of the English electorate to vote in the most petty, bigoted way possible, at harm to themselves....
  • Commented on Some notes on world building
    It's nowhere near 75% if you remember that most animal feed is imported, and that it takes a lot of said feed....
  • Commented on 21st Century: a complaint
    I must have missed that episode. Sure you weren't thinking of some fantasy series instead?...
  • Commented on How I learned to stop worrying and love the concept of punitive slating....
    You are sealioning. Bugger off until you stop being wilfully ignorant to waste everyone's time....
  • Posted Vicar shows lack of consistency to The Pagan Prattle
    England: A woman with an imaginary friend has told a group of primary school children that their harmless imaginary friend does not exist. A trainee vicar who told primary school children Father Christmas does not exist has apologised for her insensitive, off-the-cuff remark. The Rev Margaret McPhee made the comment at a carol service at St Mary's Church, Stalham in Norfolk for Stalham Academy pupils on Monday night. It seems the comments were part of her telling a large whopper to the children about "the meaning of Christmas". Norfolk trainee vicar tells kids 'Santa's not real'—BBC News, 19th December...
  • Commented on Ask the Author
    We have a 12 hour transfer in Paris in February. Can you think of anywhere for an afternoon gathering?...
  • Commented on Let's put the future behind us
    Everyone seems to be overlooking the evidence we have that not all of buildings with panels have the associated shields. In particular, shields are rare in areas where there are substantial numbers of older buildings. Perhaps the shields are an...
  • Commented on Oh dear
    May I just interject and ask if any commenters in Berlin know of a suitable place to have a gathering? Requirements: Large enough to cope with a crowd. quiet enough for conversation. not smoky (I think the first requirement guarantees...
  • Commented on The Curse of Laundry
    Towo: Woolworth definitely exists in Germany, unlike here....
  • Commented on The Curse of Laundry
    So please can you write UKIP into a significant role in the next Laundry novel?...
  • Commented on Drink Me: The Horror Hotel Story, and Where Ideas Come From
    You get whatever you chose as your serif and sans serif fonts in your browser. That's all the CSS does, rather than picking specific typefaces. I recommend you go choose some you like....
  • Posted A tale of three dossiers to The Pagan Prattle
    United Kingdom: The other day, Bartholomew's Notes on Religion drew my attention to the unearthing of an ancient artifact, or rather, to the conspiracy theories surrounding the disappearance of something pulled out of an MP's arse: Geoffrey Dickens' alleged dossier proving the existence of child abuse by satanic cults, whose members included some very important people indeed. And now the Prime Minister himself has either been sucked in, or is trying to distract attention away from something: David Cameron has ordered a fresh investigation into what happened to a missing dossier of alleged paedophile activity involving politicians in the 1980s....
  • Commented on World Cup: engage Grinch mode now!
    So, how badly did England lose to Italy? I've been at a beer festival in a field in the middle of nowhere in Scotland this weekend, with no connectivity at all....
  • Commented on Schroedinger's Kingdom: the Scottish Political Singularity Explained
    The US already has something more than devolution, with the individual States having a lot of control over their own affairs, so long as what they do is constitutional....
  • Commented on Vacation
    I'm still rather interested in this tour. Can we arrange to get together?...
  • Commented on Vacation
    The principle remains - Google Maps has its problems, in this specific example not being able to tell the difference between Something Road and New Something Road. A problem that caused me to walk a long way before giving up...
  • Commented on Vacation
    OSM is great for geocaching, and apparently well-liked by cyclists but doesn't do routing well. I will have it on the GPSr I'll have with me for caching. The iPhone is considerably smaller than the new satnav we just bought...
  • Commented on Vacation
    That looks as if it ought to be useful, but I can't get it to go past the second item. A web "designer" is clearly in need of finding a new career in something they can actually do....
  • Commented on Vacation
    He'll hate that, but I'd love to see the Japanese team play....
  • Commented on Vacation
    Why the fuck would we want to suffer a Microsoft store? The one I've been past, in Boston, is loud, garish, unpleasant and contains nothing worth buying....
  • Commented on Because people keep asking me ...
    Fluff is on a panel with Harold at Satellite 4....
  • Commented on Because people keep asking me ...
    Fluff the Plush Cthulhu says that He has not been leaning on Greg to vote any particular way. Honest. Not even slightly. Well, maybe He engaged in a little bit of threatening to eat last, etc....
  • Commented on Circumstantial connections
    A very interesting airworthiness directive was issued by the FAA a few days ago, and comes into force on 9th April: "SUMMARY: We are adopting a new airworthiness directive (AD) for certain The Boeing Company Model 777 airplanes. This AD...
  • Posted Love Thy Neighbour round-up to The Pagan Prattle
    Central African Rupublic: A mob of Christians have killed two Muslims and burned their bodies in the latest example of horrific religious violence sweeping that country in the aftermath of a coup. On Friday, a convoy carrying Muslim refugees out of the country was attacked and 22 people killed. And at least one person identifying as Christian has boasted about an attack that would (hopefully) horrify even the EDL (after the cut, because it's graphic)....
  • Posted Intelligent Warming update to The Pagan Prattle
    England: The UKIP councillor who ranted on about flooding being caused by those nasty homosexuals ignoring his imaginary friend has been suspended by his party. But the cause of his suspension is not that they are embarrassed by his ridiculous views—they are shared by many in the extreme right organisation—but because he had been told not to do any media stuff, and he did. UKIP leader Nigel Farage said he was entitled to his strong Baptist view of the world, but had defied a request not to do further media interviews. Mr Farage said: So we suspended him, quite rightly....
  • Posted A chip off the old block. to The Pagan Prattle
    Brazil: The lightning strike is one of the traditional forms of smiting attributed to the Christian God when he does not approve of something. So, has God finally decided to do something about ostentatious displays of piety, something his son warns against in Matthew chapter 6? A lightning strike has damaged a thumb of Rio de Janeiro's famous Christ the Redeemer statue. The thumb on the right hand of the 38m (125ft) statue was hit during a storm on Thursday night, officials said. Or was it a completely different imaginary friend? Rio's Christ the Redeemer statue's thumb chipped in storm—BBC...
  • Posted Intelligent Warming to The Pagan Prattle
    England: It seems members of far-right party UKIP are competing with the best of the Americans when it comes to bizarre scientifish ideas. Take Henley-on-Thames councillor David Silvester, who has a novel idea about the recent floods. In the letter to the Henley Standard he wrote: The scriptures make it abundantly clear that a Christian nation that abandons its faith and acts contrary to the Gospel (and in naked breach of a coronation oath) will be beset by natural disasters such as storms, disease, pestilence and war. He added: I wrote to David Cameron in April 2012 to warn him...
  • Posted Springmarch to The Drey
    I have just finished a new typeface. A year in the making, Springmarch is a thorough reworking of a 19th century original. I think it's rather Steampunk. It's released under the SIL Open Font License. You can download it...
  • Commented on Why Microsoft Word must Die
    Your comment translates as "This cider really isn't a very good beer". My main beef with Word is that its file format doesn't seem to be consistent, even in the same version, and Word documents do not import reliably into...
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